Henry, John (Legendary character)
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found: Waller, F. John-Henry, 1933.
found: Wikipedia, September 15, 2017(John Henry (folklore); African American folk hero; a railway worker said to have beaten a steam-powered hammer in a contest only to die with a hammer in his hand from the stress ... Both the Stalinists of the Communist Party and the Democratic Party New Dealers appropriated John Henry for their own political purposes. During the 1930's the Stalinists reworked John Henry into an iconic symbol of working class struggle and opposition to racial oppressionto and as a strong "democratic" working class hero)
found: Britannica Academic online, accessed September 15, 2017(John Henry; hero of a widely sung U.S. folk ballad)
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2017-09-15: new
2017-09-19: revised
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